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The play, Good Night, Oscar, premiered at the Belasco Theatre and starred Sean Hayes, who received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance. [25] Good Night, Oscar was a fictionalized version of a true event in Levant's life, when he was given a four-hour furlough from a psychiatric hospital to allow him to appear on The ...
Good Night, Oscar is a comedy-drama play written by American playwright Doug Wright. The story revolves around a fictional event in which pianist and humorist Oscar Levant portrayed by Sean Hayes appears on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. The production received critical acclaim with Hayes winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Sean Hayes stars on Broadway in 'Good Night, Oscar,' Doug Wright's dark comedy following pianist Levant as he's being treated for mental illness.
Today’s audiences are unlikely to know the name Oscar Levant, the once-famed pianist, composer, comedian and actor at the center of Doug Wright’s new Broadway play “Good Night, Oscar.”
Through the lips of the mordant savant Oscar Levant — “Eeyore in a cheap suit” — the playwright Doug Wright subtly takes down today’s pious and censorious American theater, delivering a ...
Sean Patrick Hayes [1] (born June 26, 1970) [2] is an American actor, comedian, and producer. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he gained acclaim for his role as Jack McFarland on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace , for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and four Screen Actors Guild Awards .
The New York actor says starring opposite Hayes in the Broadway drama “lifts my soul into the stratosphere every day.” In 'Good Night, Oscar,' Alex Wyse Befriends Sean Hayes And Finds A ...
Also in 2023, Doug wrote the play Good Night, Oscar a drama centered around pianist and actor Oscar Levant's appearance on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. The play starred Sean Hayes and premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago before making its transfer to Broadway.